Michael J Bustamante

@mjbusta.bsky.social

Assoc. Prof of History and Cuban Studies Chair, Univ. Miami | Dir. Academic Programs, Cuban Heritage Collection | Cuban Memory Wars '21 | The Rev. from W/in '19 | Opinions my own.

A Cuban migrant held in solitary confinement at an immigration detention facility in Texas died after guards held him down, according to an autopsy report released Wednesday that ruled the death a homicide. n.pr/49xRXVf

Autopsy finds Cuban immigrant in ICE custody died of homicide due to asphyxia

A Cuban migrant held in solitary confinement at an immigration detention facility in Texas died after guards held him down, according to an autopsy report released Wednesday that ruled the death a homicide.

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"He has repatriated > 1,600 Cubans in 2025. Legal immigration has also been cut. Trump enacted a travel ban, including Cuba, & ended a family reunification program. Officials are rejecting visa applications. The admin paused all Cuban immigration cases: naturalization, residency & asylum."

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“When Trump claimed that Biden had misused parole authority many Cubans reassured themselves: Trump isn’t talking about us. He’ll target the criminals and the gangs for deportation. We still have the Cuban Adjustment Act. He owes Cuban Americans our votes.”

Will Cuban Americans Choose Trumpism, or Solidarity? - Public Books

Voting overwhelmingly for Trump, Cuban Americans are now mostly silent as the new administration cracks down on all migrants, including Cubans.

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Michael J. Bustamante (@mjbusta.bsky.social) explores the past and present of the Cuban Americans who voted overwhelmingly for Trump—and who are now mostly silent as his administration cracks down on all migrants, including Cubans.

Will Cuban Americans Choose Trumpism, or Solidarity? - Public Books

Voting overwhelmingly for Trump, Cuban Americans are now mostly silent as the new administration cracks down on all migrants, including Cubans.

publicbooks.org

Hi bluesky. Been a minute. Or several months. Dropping in to share the link to the program & registration info for our 2025-2026 Seminar in Cuban and Cuban Diaspora Studies at U Miami's Cuban Heritage Collection. Great line-up. It's all virtual. Hope you can join us. mailchi.mp/miami.edu/li...

Join the Cuban Heritage Collection at the University of Miami Libraries online for the “Seminar in Cuban and Cuban Diaspora Studies”

Fall 2025 and spring 2026 | Multiple dates

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Great convo last night @umchc w Fabien Pisani & CM Álvarez after screening “En la caliente.” A film about not just *the* little known pioneer of reggaeton in Cuba, Kandyman, but the irrepressible nature of popular culture and Santiago de Cuba as a crucible of Caribbean sounds.

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An exciting new volume on Triscornia, republican-era Cuba's forgotten immigration station, opened the same year as Ellis Island. Co-edited by my former FIU graduate student John Ermer and Cuban-born scholar Ahmed Correa.

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